The Importance of Change Readiness in the Total Change Process

Location: Gold Coast
Date: Thursday 9 February 2012
Event Series: Hot Topics

Join Steve Barlow AFAIM as he shares his insights into change readiness and its role in helping organisations become more adaptable and innovative, and its importance in successful organisational change.

Change readiness is the ability to continuously initiate and respond to change in ways that create advantage, minimize risk, and sustain performance.

Being adaptable to change involves much more than wanting to change or having the awareness that change is needed. Change readiness is a complex state that requires particular psychological resources and certain types of narrative.

Change Readiness is one of the six major components for successfully leading change and in this presentation Steve will cover:

• Understanding change
• What is 'Change Readiness'
• The difference between readiness and preparation
• How do you work with readiness

After this session, participants will have a better understanding of how to work with change readiness within an organisation, why change readiness is a key element in successful change and what change demands of people.

Speaker Profile

Steve Barlow
Steve is a change management consultant and organisational trainer, specialising in the area of change readiness. Change readiness has important implications for how organisations handle change and innovation. Steve holds a PhD in change readiness and is the co-author of a recently-published book "People Get Ready: Change Readiness in Organizations". His company, Redequip, has specialist tools to identify and measure change readiness, provides training to develop readiness, and helps organisations utilise the readiness of their people to achieve successful and cost-effective change outcomes.

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